What You Need to Know: The Israeli Air Force's Kfir combat aircraft is a domestically developed fighter derived from the ...
Before the development of the Kfir, the Israeli Air Force relied heavily on the Dassault Mirage IIIC, a French delta-winged fighter. In the 1960s, the Israelis and French enjoyed a harmonious ...
The first of these was the Dassault Mirage III, known as the "Plancheta" (Planchette) by its Spanish pilots due to its ...